tsgettoolbox 17.35.11.18

Will get time series from different sources on the internet.

tsgettoolbox - Quick Guide

The ‘tsgettoolbox’ is a Python script and library to get time-series data from different web services. The tsgettoolbox will work with Python 2.6+ and 3.0+.

Documentation

Reference documentation is at tsgettoolbox_documentation.

Installation

At the command line:

$ pip install tsgettoolbox
# OR
$ easy_install tsgettoolbox

Or, if you have virtualenvwrapper installed:

$ mkvirtualenv tsgettoolbox
$ pip install tsgettoolbox

Usage Summary - Command Line

Just run ‘tsgettoolbox –help’ to get a list of subcommands. To get detailed help for a particular sub-command, for instance ‘coops’, type ‘tsgettoolbox coops –help’.

about

Print out information about tsgettoolbox and the system.

cdec

This module provides access to data provided by the California Department of Water Resources: California Data Exchange Center web site.

coops

Download data from Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS). Detailed documentation about the National Ocean Service CO-OPS web services is at http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/api/

cpc

This module provides direct access to Climate Prediction Center, Weekly Drought Index dataset.

darksky

Download data from http://api.darksky.net. Detailed documentation about the Forecast.io service is at https://darksky.net/dev/docs. You have to get an API key from https://darksky.net/dev/register

daymet

Download data from the Daymet dataset created by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Detailed documentation is at http://daymet.ornl.gov/

lcra_hydromet

Fetches site parameter data

lcra_wq

Fetches historical or near real-time (for some sites) data

ldas

Download data from the Land Data Assimilation Service (LDAS). Two projects are available, the National LDAS (0.125x0.125 degree hourly) and the Global LDAS (0.25x0.25 degree 3 hourly).

modis

Download datasets developed using the MODIS satellite imagery.

Documentation: https://modis.ornl.gov/documentation.html

Policies: https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/modis_policies

Citation: https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/citing_our_data

Product	Name
MCD12Q1	MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover (LC) Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid
MCD12Q2	MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Dynamics (LCD) Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid
MCD43A1	MODIS/Terra+Aqua BRDF/Albedo (BRDF/MCD43A1) 16-Day L3 Global 500m SIN Grid
MCD43A2	MODIS/Terra+Aqua BRDF/Model Quality (BRDF/MCD43A2) 16-Day L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V005
MCD43A4	MODIS/Terra+Aqua Nadir BRDF-Adjusted Reflectance (NBAR) 16-Day L3 Global 500m SIN Grid
MOD09A1	MODIS/Terra Surface Reflectance (SREF) 8-Day L3 Global 500m SIN Grid
MOD11A2	MODIS/Terra Land Surface Temperature/Emissivity (LST) 8-Day L3 Global 1km SIN Grid
MOD13Q1	MODIS/Terra Vegetation Indices (NDVI/EVI) 16-Day L3 Global 250m SIN Grid [Collection 5]
MOD15A2	Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR) 8-Day Composite [Collection 5]
MOD16A2	MODIS/Terra Evapotranspiration (ET) 8-Day L4 Global Collection 5
MOD17A2	MODIS/Terra Gross Primary Production (GPP) 8-Day L4 Global [Collection 5.1]
MOD17A3	MODIS/Terra Net Primary Production (NPP) Yearly L4 Global 1km SIN Grid
MYD09A1	MODIS/Aqua Surface Reflectance (SREF) 8-Day L3 Global 500m SIN Grid
MYD11A2	MODIS/Aqua Land Surface Temperature/Emissivity (LST)8-Day L3 Global 1km SIN Grid
MYD13Q1	MODIS/Aqua Vegetation Indices (NDVI/EVI) 16-Day L3 Global 1km SIN Grid
MYD15A2	MODIS/Aqua Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR) 8 Day Composite
MYD17A2	MODIS/Aqua Gross Primary Production (GPP) 8 Day L4 Global

ncdc_ghcnd

Download from the Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily. Requires registration and free API key.

If you use this data, please read ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/readme.txt about “How to cite”.

GHCN (Global Historical Climatology Network)-Daily is an integrated database of daily climate summaries from land surface stations across the globe. Like its monthly counterpart (GHCN-Monthly) , GHCN-Daily is comprised of daily climate records from numerous sources that have been integrated and subjected to a common suite of quality assurance reviews.

ncdc_ghcnd_ftp

Download from the Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily.

ncdc_gs

National Climatic Data Center Global Summary of the Month (GSOM) or Global Summary of the Year (GSOY). Requires registration and free API key.

ncdc_normal_ann

National Climatic Data Center annual normals. Requires registration and free API key.

ncdc_normal_dly

National Climatic Data Center Daily Normals. Requires registration and free API key.

ncdc_normal_hly

National Climatic Data Center GHCND Monthly Summaries. Requires registration and free API key.

ncdc_normal_mly

National Climatic Data Center GHCND Monthly Summaries. Requires registration and free API key.

ncdc_precip_15

National Climatic Data Center 15 minute precipitation. Requires registration and free API key.

ncdc_precip_hly

National Climatic Data Center hourly precipitation. Requires registration and free API key.

ncdc_annual

National Climatic Data Center annual data summaries. Requires registration and free API key.

ncdc_ghcndms

National Climatic Data Center GHCND Monthly Summaries. Requires registration and free API key.

ndbc

Download data from the National Data Buoy Center.

nwis

Download time-series from the USGS National Water Information Service (NWIS). There are three main NWIS databases. The ‘tsgettoolbox’ can currently pull from the Instantaneous Value database (–database=iv) for sub-daily interval data starting in 2007, and the Daily Values database (–database=dv). Detailed documentation is available at http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis

twc

Fetches Texas weather data

unavco

Detailed information at: http://www.unavco.com/data/web-services/web-services.html

Returns ‘met’, ‘pore_temperature’, ‘pore_pressure’, ‘tilt’, ‘strain’, or ‘positional’ data for UNAVCO stations.

usgs_eddn

Download from the USGS Emergency Data Distribution Network

Usage Summary - Python Library

To use the tsgettoolbox in a project:

from tsgettoolbox import tsgettoolbox

Refer to the API Documentation at tsgettoolbox_documentation.

Development

Development is managed on bitbucket at https://bitbucket.org/timcera/tsgettoolbox/overview.